Skirting the Issues? A Response to Angela Miles

This article offers a response to Angela Miles' "Women's Challenge to Adult Education" which appeared in the May 1989 issue of this journal. The article moves through a series of questions to an attempted reconstruction of the theoretical basis underlying Angela Miles' arguments. It then notes, that in light of recent exchanges between postmodernism and feminism, this theoretical basis can be called into question. It concludes with the suggestion that postmodernism modifies rather than denies the issue of women's challenge to adult education.